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Contact Alex Fraser for our titles Toll Free 1-866-517-2113 September 2015 our 44th anniversary

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

As my last official act I'm pleased to announce our Annual General Meeting which will be

held at the United Church on the Hill in Alexandria on Thursday, May 1.

As has been our custom, the meeting will include a potluck supper which will be served at 6:30 PM after a half hour of socializing, to be followed by our business meeting at 7:30 PM and then a special presentation on the Sir John Johnson Manor House of Williamstown by the President of the committee, Brent Lafave. Please consult the enclosed press release for more information

about the presentation and Brent. Also, mark your calendars for Thursday, June 12, when our

annual picnic will be hosted by Frances Fraser and the Dalkeith Historical Society.

An important part of our AGM will be the election of a new Board of Directors. Graham

Wells is and will still be accepting nominations to the Board. At this date, seven individuals

have volunteered to serve, more are needed. They include returning Directors Frances

MacDonald. Robin Flockton has also agreed to serve. Graham, Gay Hamilton, and I will not be

returning as directors. Gay and Graham were stalwarts over the past three years as members

of the Board and of the special ad hoc committee that examined and recommended changes

in the structure of the GHS. Through their efforts, and others, the difficult process of transition

was much smoother than it might otherwise have been. Gay will also be stepping down as

Chair of the Nor'westers and Loyalist Museum, having stabilized and guided that Museum

through its own difficult transition after the death of Joan P. MacDonald.

I have been a member of the Board of the GHS since 1990, serving as Treasurer for four of

those years and more recently as interim Chair, While I will continue to be an active member in

the Society, it is time for me to step aside and devote my energy to other volunteer activity.

These next years will be important ones for the GHS as it faces what could become a serious

shortfall in funding and a similar shortfall in leadership unless members become more involved

in fundraising and assuming leadership responsibility. In fund raising return to the regular

pleas I made when Treasurer, that members remember the Society or one of the Museums, as I have, in their wills or of through specially earmarked donations. Without the generosity of our own members, the Society and/or the Museums will face serious hardship. There are far fewer

opportunities for obtaining government grants than once was the case.

Thanks for all your support and for the strong attendance we have had at meeting since the

beginning of the year. The Annual General Meeting also offers an opportunity for annual

members to pay dues for 2014 and for new members (Always welcomed) to join us. I hope to

see you with your potluck dish on May 1 in Alexandria. Let’s all celebrate Spring which finally

seems to have arrived with its flooding and "mud lusciousness" everywhere

Brent Lafave will tell the story of the Sir John Johnson Manor House and the activities of

its committee at the Annual General Meeting of the Glengarry Historical Society on

Thursday, May 1, starting at 6:00 PM, at the United Church on the Hill, located one

block east of North Main Street in Alexandria. For additional information contact either

David Anderson, 613-347-7192 or Bill Gilsdorf, 613-525-5177.

Brent Lafave heads the Manor House Committee, a not for profit organization, which

began taking a role in helping Parks Canada care for, and promote the Sir John

Johnson House National Historical Site in Williamstown (founded 1784). Williamstown is

emblematic of the Loyalist settlements near the St. Lawrence River that Sir John

Johnson was entrusted to establish from what is now the Ontario/Quebec border to as

far west as Kingston.

In the 1990’s when the County Land Registry Office closed, the committee was one of the organizations that took land record abstracts and associated documents into safe keeping. It also holds other research material such as church records, school records,

biographical information, etc. For additional information on the John Johnson Manor

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About Me Alex Fraser

ALEX W FRASER, or Alex Fraser born County of Glengarry, whose U E L ancestors settled in 1784, attended school, Lancaster, Williamstown, worked for Bell Canada, 1967 got ill at school in Ottawa, Ont. During convalescence 1971, he interested himself in the ancestry of his mother, father, pursued this quest by searching local records, cemeteries, he copied headstone inscriptions leading to the publication of Gravestones of Glengarry V 1 1976, V 2 1978.,V 3 1988, V 4 2008.V5 Kirk Hill, V6 Breadalbane, V7 Lochiel, V8 Glen Nevis 2011, published over 28,000 pages of material on the Glengarry Stormont County Ontario Area.
1992 he received the Canada 125th Anniversary medal, 1997 “The Morley K Thomas Award “ for 30 years of weather observing.
1998 Alex joined NATO/Bitron, started using the excellent product to reduce fuel, maintenance costs, 2006 under Bitron reached the Director, Founder, Presidential level in Bitron, averaging with his 1997 GMC 1/2 truck these 10+ years basically every 3rd tank of gas Free.
Rhoda Ross is a great assistance in collecting, sorting, publishing these works. The MacNaughton’s of Glengarry County Ontario area is her creation in this 4 volume work.